EDUCATION
Our programme is a two-year, high-intensity, low-residency programme. It is a course for artists with a curiosity for learning, a spirit of experimentation, and an ambition to grow, who are committed to artistic research as a life-long practice in dialogue with peers and audience. Focusing on the students' research, the programmes' post-humanist affinities guide the students to engage practically in their performance making with the notions of care, hospitality of otherness and ecological thinking.
The HOME's de-disciplined curriculum complements the fluid nature of performance by allowing students to study with students from many different artistic and educational backgrounds and engage with lecturers, tutors, supervisors and mentors both within and beyond the HOME as suits their individual practices.
STRUCTURE
The curriculum is designed to allow for a thoughtful progression, integration and consistency of those skills needed for an ethically and ecologically geared artistic research within the required competencies and learning objectives that come with our status as a fully accredited Master's Degree.
At the HOME, all research trajectories share a common foundation through core modules that foster de-disciplined learning and collaboration. These core modules are completed during the first period of study and provide all students with a shared grounding in performance research, theory, and practice. In the second period, students focus on their individual research trajectories, with the support of lecturers, an individual supervisor and external mentor.
To achieve the depth, critical rigor, and methodological autonomy of an accredited Master of Arts, Performance Practices is structured around a total study load of 120 ECTS.
Ethical and ecologically geared artistic research cannot be rushed; it demands time for iteration, unlearning, and field testing. The 120 ECTS volume honors this necessity by balancing collective immersion with deep individual practice.
Group sessions are organised in six residential periods (for the 1st year) and four residential periods (for 2nd year) of three to five weeks spread. The programme is full-time, and students are expected to work approximately 40 hours a week. In between residential periods, students work autonomously on their own research projects with the support of one-to-one tutorials, online group meetings, and peer feedback.
MODULES & PERIODS
In 2026-27, the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES will offer the following range of modules designed to support diverse approaches to performance, research, and critical thinking. These modules reflect the current expertise of our faculty and the evolving priorities of the field.
2026-2027 MODULES
Introduction to Performance Studies Year 1 - Residential Period 1 Credits: 15 ECT Lecturers: Dr. Megan Hoetger, Dr. Anja Foerschner, Verena Stenke Andrea Pagnes Description: Politics of Representing Bodies serves as the foundational entry point into the "Political Contours of Performing" series, providing a rigorous exploration of performance theories of representation and the contexts under which identity formation occurs. The module meticulously tracks the axes of visibility, legibility, and agency, examining the political conditions of appearing—or refusing to appear—within various social and legal frameworks. Through an interdisciplinary lens that encompasses Black Studies, Indigenous studies, decolonial theory, and crip theory, students engage with representation through diverse dimensions such as gesture, hapticity, and temporalities of seeing. Ultimately, the essence of the module lies in treating theory as a material, somatic experience, where practice and research are enmeshed to develop a critical understanding of performance as a site of sociopolitical intervention.
Dramaturgical Practices Year 1 - Residential Period 1 / 5 Credits: 10 ECT Lecturers: Dr. Megan Hoetger, Steef Kersbergen, Irina Baldini Description: This module offers students an introduction to the shifting grounds of dramaturgical practices, emphasising dramaturgy as an organisational technology somewhere between the conceptual, the technical, and the communicative. Through discussion-reflection sessions paired with practical activities and feedback rounds in the fall semester, students will gain overview of range of performance projects from across dance, theatre, and the visual arts, learning how to identity and distill the dramaturgical operations from within artworks, to experiment with the applicability of these operations in their own research, and to ‘think like a dramaturg’ in refining addressivity and effectively composing meaningful acts of communication in the presentation of their performance artistic research trajectories.
Feedback Frameworks Year 1 - Residential period 1/3 Credits: 5 ECT Lecturers: Steef Kersbergen Description: his module is designed to explain the components of effective feedback. It proposes different formats, contexts, and frameworks for feedback sharing and receiving, and guides students on how to evaluate performances critically and constructively. Students are also supported in their receiving and implementation of feedback in a seamless way that does not hinder their creativity. In this module students engage with a specific method and practice of feedback sharing. From there they can develop their own preferences and styles in feedback giving.
Politically Engaged Performance Making Year 1 - Residential period 3 Credits: 15 Lecturers: Dr. Megan Hoetger, Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes Description: Who and what gets to move when and where or not? How does knowledge move, get moved, or make movement(s)? This module brings attention to the politics of transmitting knowledges through an intensive theoretical and practical investigation of movement in its multivalent infrastructural and epistemological senses: as technologies of organisation, frameworks of display and presentation, conditions of mobility, questions of sustainability, networks of communication, and coalition-building practices. As we examine the affective and material conditions of knowledge transmission through engagement with key texts and thinkers, students will also have the opportunity to practically experiment with site-specific and site-responsive modes of performance as research, which culminates in a day of sharing their in-process findings.
Designing Practice as Research Year 1 - Residential periods 4 / 6 Credits: 10 ECT Lecturers: Astarti Athanasiadou, Steef Kersbergen, Dr. Mariella Greil Description: This module introduces students to a variety key term of artistic research, along with the key skills needed to carry it out as part of their degree journey. It encourages the development of artistic source materials, research plans, and both conceptual and technical experimentation. Students will explore and shape their research topics while learning how to map the field of artistic inquiry and develop strategies for navigating it. Through a combination of lectures and seminars, students will become familiar with essential research terminology and methods, applying these directly to their own evolving projects. As the first-year progresses, the module supports students in understanding how to identify gaps in existing knowledge, relate their interests to current issues, and articulate their potential contributions to the field. Through the residency abroad, one of the module highlights, the students will engage hands-on with their pre-research, designing and executing research actions. This practical engagement with your pre-research questions will help you define your research towards the second year. To conclude the module, each student will deliver a performance lecture that demonstrates their practice towards become research so far.
YEAR 2
Advanced Performance Studies Year 2 - Residential Period 7 Credits: 10 ECT Lecturers: Dr. Megan Hoetger, Dr. Anja Foerschner Description: Resistance resides in the tensions between radical claims and institutional frames. It can take many forms. It can be loud or quiet, explicitly stated as such, performed through an “opting out,” or through an insistence that “no, we are still here.” In this module, we’ll explore the ways that different thinkers and makers have hit the limits of, intervened into and attempted to resist linguistic infrastructures of knowledge production and transmission. Focusing on performative writing techniques and performative print media, students will be challenged to grapple with the fraught relations between resistance to and entanglement with the infrastructures of words, which organize and undo bodies, their conditions of liveability, and their possibilities for remembering.
Dissemination & Documentation Year 2 - Residential Period 7 Credits: 5 ECT Lecturers: Dr. Anja Foerschner, Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes Description: This module introduces students to theories and practices surrounding the modes, meanings and functions of documentation and dissemination of practice-as-research in the performing arts. In a co-teaching format, various perspectives, theories, strategies and approaches are exposed and discussed to help students discover and gain a critical understanding of the various modes, forms, and meanings of documentation as it relates to their practice-as-research. Ultimately, students will be guided to develop their own standards and practices of documentation and dissemination both with regards to the idiosyncratic nature of their practice-based research but also within their respective field. The module guides students to make a portfolio (understood in an expanded form) where they expose the core aspects of their field-specific practice-as-research in a tangible format. From informal documentation as a research tool to more formal documentation as a tool of outreach (and many points between), this module seeks to encourage the practice of documenting as an integrated element of the student’s broader work and culminates with the delivery of a portfolio that disseminates the core elements of student's practice-as-research to a wider audience.
Frames Year 2 - Residential period 7 Credits: 5 ECT Lecturers: Dr. Mariella Greil Description: This module launches students into a deep dive across the diverse and evolving landscape of artistic research. Focusing on Practice-as-Research (PaR), Frames invites students to critically examine which frameworks are urgent today, why they matter, and how they shape contemporary performance inquiry. Approaching the field through choreographic, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary lenses, students will explore artistic research as a collaborative, political, ecosomatic, and (post)human endeavor. Together with invited experts across disciplines, cultures, and generations, students will stretch and probe the formal frameworks of creative inquiry to broaden their understanding of what performance-as-research can be. Frames offers a dedicated space for synthesizing knowledge, feeling into thresholds, and cultivating a shared vocabulary of embodied performance practice. Throughout the module, students are supported in articulating emerging research questions, refining their artistic methodologies, and developing a distinct personal voice equipped to respond to an increasingly complex world.
Dissertation by Practice Year 2 - Residential Period 8 / 10 Credits: 40 ECT Lecturers: Astarti Athanasiadou, Dr. Anja Foerschner, Dr. Mariella Greil, Dr. Megan Hoetger, Andrea Pagnes Description: As the culminating milestone of the programme, Dissertation by Practice is where every thread of a student's journey comes together. As the highest-weighted module in the curriculum, it provides the space, time, and structure for students to take full ownership of their artistic research, turning personal urgencies and key questions into a fully realized, contemporary contribution to the field. Students navigate this journey within a supportive ecology of care and exchange. Guided by a dedicated team of international supervisors, lecturers, and external mentors, students move through phases of testing, prototyping, failing, refining, and making sense of their work. Here, the inevitable "messiness" and uncertainty of artistic research are welcomed as essential parts of the creative process. Throughout the module, students develop and share their inquiry across four interconnected elements: Project Confirmation (ProCon): A crucial gateway step where students submit a detailed research proposal outlining their methodology and execution plan. Students receive rigorous feedback to evaluate the viability, scope, and rigor of their project before formally embarking on their independent research trajectory. Exposition of Artistic Research (EAR): The public, practical manifestation of the research, where artistic practice takes center stage. Thesis: The written companion to the practice, offering a space to contextualize, analyze, and articulate the ideas driving the work. Portfolio: A documentation strategy that captures the hidden processes, iterations, and future possibilities of the project. Ultimately, Dissertation by Practice is an invitation for students to claim their distinct voice, trust their process, and step confidently into the world as artistic researchers.
Please note that HOME reserves the right to make changes to the structure, content, dates, and teaching faculty of its programmes. The information provided here is indicative and subject to updates to ensure the programmes remain responsive and relevant.
FACULTY & MENTORS
Interim Head of Programme
Dr. Malou Willemars
Programme Coordinator
Karina van Lenthe
Learners' Coordinator
Production Manager
Lecturers
Mentors *
Agat Sharma (NL)
Alana Jelinek (AU/UK)
Amalia Balaska (GR)
Anthony Adams (US)
Alessandra Saviotti (IT)
Andrea Bozic (NL/HR)
Andrea Pagnes (IT)
Andreas Constantinou (DK)
Ant Hampton (UK)
Arianne Portegies (NL)
Asu Aksu (NL/TR)
Bakani Pick-Up (UK)
Benjamin Verdonck (BE)
Billy Mullaney (US/NL)
Bojana Cvejic (RS/BE)
Bruno Listopad (PT/NL)
Casey Jenkins (US)
Carin Rustema (NL)
Christopher Matthew Hutchins(UK)
Clara Amaral (PT/NL)
Dan Zoroaster Svarc
Danae Theodoridou (GR)
Danielle Wagenaar (NL)
David Weber-Krebs (BE)
daz disley (UK)
Deniz Buga (NL)
Despina Sevasti (GR)
Dominique Gilliot (FR)
Dood Paard (NL)
Ehsan Fardjadniya (NL)
Emma Cocker (UK)
Emilie Gallier (FR/UK)
Elena Cologni (IT)
Erik Hagoort (NL)
Eva Karzcag (NL)
Eve Hopkins (NL)
Fransien van der Putt (NL)
Gaby Allard (NL)
Georgios Tsagdis (GR/UK)
Giulia Casalini (UK)
Goran Ferčec (HR)
Halory Goerger (FR)
Hannah Ma (DE)
Henry Alles (NL)
Ivana Müller (FR)
Jacoba Bruneel (UK)
Janez Jansa (SI)
Jeanine Durning (US)
Jessica Renfro (DE)
Joachim Robbrecht (NL)
João da Silva (BR)
João Fiadeiro (PT)
Jonathan Burrows (UK)
Judith Wambacq (BE)
Julia Dudzinska (PL)
Julyen Hamilton (UK/GR)
Juriaan Gregor (NL)
Kat Valastur (GR/BE)
Katie Duck (NL)
Katrina Brown (UK)
Kayla Dougan-Bowtell (UK)
Konstantina Georgelou (GR/NL)
Lara Staal (NL)
Linda Rogers (UK)
Lotte van den Berg (NL)
Louise Coles
Lucy Suggate (UK)
Luiza Cascon (PT)
Marc Boumeester (NL)
Marijn Lems (NL)
Maria Magdalena Kozłowska (NL/PL)
Maria Mavridou (NL)
Marianna Andrigo (IT)
Marilyn Arsem (US)
Mårten Spangberg (SE)
Matteo Fargeon (UK)
Meg Stuart (US/BE)
Michael Laub (BE)
Michael Zandl (AT)
Myriam Van Imschoot (BE)
Orion Maxted (NL)
Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos (NL)
Paula Walta (NL)
Pedro Manuel (NL/PR)
Philippine Hoegen (BE)
Pilvi Porkola (FI)
Pieterjan Seynave (BE)
Rafael Pagatini (BR)
Rainer Hoffman (DE)
Rebecca Lee (US)
Romy Rüegger (CH)
Rosalind Goldberg (NO/SE)
Rosana Cade (UK)
Rudi Laermans (BE)
Sarah van Lamsweerde (NL)
Sîpan Sezgin Tekin (NL)
Sol Rezza (AR)
Suzan Tunca (NL/DE)
Tara Fatehi Irani (UK)
Tim Etchells (GB)
Zhana Ivanova (BG/NL)
Dr. Pavlos Kountouriotis
Founding Head of Programme (2016–2025)
Pavlos led the foundation of the HOME OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICES into a globally respected MA programme rooted in intellectual rigour, care, and innovation. His vision around The Body in Performance continues to shape our pedagogies and values. While he no longer holds an operational role, his legacy is foundational to the identity of the programme.
* All those on this list have contributed to HOME's programme in recent years. This list is probably not exhaustive. The people on this list are not all currently associated with HOME.